The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1887-08-25
A GOLDEN HARVEST.
The 1887 Crop the Most Bountiful
Ever Harvested for Years
Lincoln County

" The Banner Section of the Who'll
Northwest-Facts From Far
n mers Given
To the Public-A Land of Rich Agri
cultural Products, ns Will
q be Seen Below.
TO the south and east of us disaster
have occurred which have completely
: destroyed the crOps-in some localitie
the only means of existence. Think
!: of it, ye farmers of Lincoln county
while you have been reaping rich har
vest this season, the unfortunate til
lers of the soil of many of the eastern
states have beenfighting against chincf
bugs, storms, drouths, and nearly al
the misfortunes attributed to an un
lucky locality. Dakota can justly be
called an agricultural paradise. Hot
winds have crept up with whitening
breath and almost scorched our lives
but we live contented in our border
like a butterfly in bed Of roses. Cy-
clones have howled and worked disas-
trous results in vicinities in close prox-
unity to us, but we sailed through the
billoWy waves of destruction with full
sail and without scratch. We have
just made safe the finest crop ever
raised in the northwest. The total
yield of wheat in Dakota is estimated at
sevety millions Of bushels; corn, thir-
ty millions, and other crops in proper
ton. And, what does this all signify /?
1t means the paying off of old scores;
the pouring in of emigrants by the
thousand and the solid fact that we
are bonanza people in bonanza
country. The sore afflicted farmers of
the east will turn their tired faces to-
ward the west and embark for the land
of promise-DakOta.
Ex-Gov. Gilbert A. Pierce, in the Pio-
neer Press, in sounding his praises of
the general prosperity We are now un-
dergoing, says: Wheat, OATS rye, bar
ley, flax, are an almost certain crop in
all parts of the territory. Corn is as
sure south of the forty sixth parallel as
in Iowa, and the immense yield this
year from Yankton to Fargo shows
that it can be cultivated to advantage
in all parts of Dakota. Wheat is surer
in hn In Ind
and the groaning elevators from Penn
bina to Yankton attestits universally.
Potatoes, beets, turnips, almost every
variety OF root crops and peas and
beans thrive so marvelously that to
tell the truth is to invite disbelief. a
year ago Montana was regarded as the
region par excellence for stock. Today
herds of cattle from that territory are
being brought into Dakota, where hay
is abundant, where shelter can be pro-
vided, where they are hundreds of miles
nearer market, and where, even last
winter, the severest known for many
years, the loss was smaller than in al
@2st ea9slna ahX hs ststf Ct ths pIpn Sheep
success in the territory and swine
thrive far better than in the damp re-
gions to the south. Now these are
facts. They need to be pondered on,
and they will be by the thousands in
the r-populous east deSirous of Sc
curing homes Dakota has its disad-
vantages. Wood is scarce, but forests
are growing on almost every home
stead. The weather is keen, but the !
blizzard bugaboo has lost its terrors,
and the settler finds that with the same
provision for comfort he is as indie
pendent of wind and frost here as else
where. Come and look at it!
TIE YIELD IN LINCOLN COUNTY.
An ADVOCATE reporter has inter-
viewed several of the prosperous far
mers of Lincoln county, and has gained
valuable information relative to the ul-
innate yield of the different crops.
There are scores of farmers in this
county we would have been pleased to
interview-farmerS who have harvest
ed hundreds of acres of grain this sea-
son and who yearly feed large herds of
cattle, but it being impossible to see so
many in short period we will have to
be content with what we have. The
average yield Of wheat in this county
will be twenty bushels to the acre; oats,
fifty bushels; barley, forty bushels;
flax, twelve bushels: corn, fifty bushels.
Aside from the raising of cereals our
farmers are dipping deeply into stock
raising, which makes the harvest result
less. But the farmers live in state of
happiness here. They have drifted
from a struggling channel into one Of
prosperity, and are contented. Elegant
homes have sprung up to take the place
of impromptu ones, and bright and hap
py children are reared to grow up un-
der Dakota sun, where balmy Zephyrs
reign and invigorating breezes blow
where all the excellencies of modern
schools are attainable, and where an at
mosphere of purity is necessary.
DelOW WILL Uc lOullU SUdUlotlCS SlcftLcu
from what farmers it was our pleasure
to converse with relative to the general
yield of the different crops. This is
the average result of the yield through
out the entire county.
E. NJ, Boyce, who lives three miles
south Of Canton, had 2l9 acres under
cultivation this year and says he was
never better satisfied as to the result of
his crops. He has harvested thirty
acres of wheat, thirty acres of oats,
thirty-fve acres of barley, thirty
acres of flax, and has fifty acres of the
finest corn growing in this vicinity; he
also sowed fifty acres of timothy this
year. Besides this immense crop, Mr..
Boyce is the owner of 400 head of sheep,
forty-six head of cattle and nine
horses.
A. P, Dixon, the popular ex-sheriff, is
getting right down to business in the
farming line. He sowed and planted